TY - STAND KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AU - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) AU - A. E. van Vogt AB -

Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible. 

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Merril

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Although van Vogt (1912-2000) left Canada in 1944, he is considered the founder of Canadian science fiction.

C7 - 1949 CY - New York DA - 01/1949 LA - eng N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, © 1951; Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster, Gateway to Elsewhere (1954); and in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 413-527.

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Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible. 

PB - Greenberg Publisher PP - New York PY - 1949 RN -

The book includes revised versions of “The Seesaw.” Astounding Science Fiction 27.5 (July 1941): 60-74; “The Weapon Shop.” Astounding Science Fiction 30.4 (December 1942: 9-27; rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 159-210; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 129-69; and “The Weapon Shops of Isher.” Thrilling Wonder Stories 33.3 (February 1949): 11-60. 

TI - The Weapon Shops of Isher ER -